Head injuries
Any blow to the head is a head injury. However this term denotes trauma significant enough to cause neurological symptoms.
Injuries crâniensLe risk of any head injury is to be ignored and be complicated by signs that can induce serious complications, especially in terms of brain and neurological.
This is a very common occurrence in children, but can also occur in adults after a fall, car accident or sports injury.
How to react?
Deformity, a hematoma at the site of the shock may be an obvious sign of head trauma.
Nevertheless we must look systematically associated signs that may occur in parallel with brain damage
:
* Nose bleeding, bleeding from ear;
* Nausea and vomiting;
* Headache;
* Loss of balance;
* Loss of consciousness can occur even in the short time of the accident or remotely. It must then note the time of the accident and hours of consciousness and unconsciousness of the victim, to communicate to the team medicalized.
In all cases, it is essential to immobilize the victim, and avoid bending or rotation of the head. Keep the victim's head by placing your hands flat on either side of his head. This maintenance will prevent any movement of the column axis and maintain the head-neck-trunk strictly right.
The alert healthcare relief must be made as quickly as possible.
Before any disturbance of consciousness, the victim will be put in recovery position.
To avoid the trauma ...
After any head injury, it is necessary to monitor the victim in days. Indeed, the accompanying signs can occur several hours or several days after the initial trauma: the elapsed time without worrying signs apelle free interval.
Note also that many head injuries in children can often be prevented by wearing helmets (when cycling for example) and of course by close monitoring during hazardous activities.
Dr.
Injuries crâniensLe risk of any head injury is to be ignored and be complicated by signs that can induce serious complications, especially in terms of brain and neurological.
This is a very common occurrence in children, but can also occur in adults after a fall, car accident or sports injury.
How to react?
Deformity, a hematoma at the site of the shock may be an obvious sign of head trauma.
Nevertheless we must look systematically associated signs that may occur in parallel with brain damage
:
* Nose bleeding, bleeding from ear;
* Nausea and vomiting;
* Headache;
* Loss of balance;
* Loss of consciousness can occur even in the short time of the accident or remotely. It must then note the time of the accident and hours of consciousness and unconsciousness of the victim, to communicate to the team medicalized.
In all cases, it is essential to immobilize the victim, and avoid bending or rotation of the head. Keep the victim's head by placing your hands flat on either side of his head. This maintenance will prevent any movement of the column axis and maintain the head-neck-trunk strictly right.
The alert healthcare relief must be made as quickly as possible.
Before any disturbance of consciousness, the victim will be put in recovery position.
To avoid the trauma ...
After any head injury, it is necessary to monitor the victim in days. Indeed, the accompanying signs can occur several hours or several days after the initial trauma: the elapsed time without worrying signs apelle free interval.
Note also that many head injuries in children can often be prevented by wearing helmets (when cycling for example) and of course by close monitoring during hazardous activities.
Dr.
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